Crystal Palace Breakfast or Lunch?

[mello]

We'd like to eat with Pooh & the gang around 11-ish on our MK day. Which would you choose and why?

Latest Breakfast at Crystal Palace (10:30) OR

Earliest Lunch at Crystal Palace (11:30)

Thanks for your help!

 

[seadd67]

personaly we always do CP and always at least breakfast. It just seems the best way to start out your day at the MK. Its bright sunny and with the music and the kids danceing around and smiles on there faces,well its just the perfect start. I know on some posts they say the food Is not that great,but really for me at least the food was not bad. It was fresh,warm and tasted good thats all that matters to me. Was there omlet stations or waffel made right in front of you,no but its simple breakfast buffets with pooh and his friends. For us the staff there are always great we have never(knock on wood) had a bad cm.
We have also did lunch and dinnier and was really good,but theres just something about breakfast and CP that seem right.

 

[momtotaryn]

We are not huge breakfast fans, so we did Crystal Palace for lunch at 11:30am. We really liked the food there, even though there are some that say the food is not that great. The characters came around fairly quickly, but still took time at each table, not feeling rushed at all. I wouldn't mind going back again!

 

[danceintherain]

If I was on the Dining Plan, I would choose Lunch. If I was paying OOP, I would choose Breakfast. It's only a $2 difference, but that can add up.

 

[huffjoann]

If I was on the Dining Plan, I would choose Lunch. If I was paying OOP, I would choose Breakfast. It's only a $2 difference, but that can add up.

I think this too,, unless you are huge breakfast lovers either way both times are early enough in the day

 

[OhThePain]

If you take the latest breakfast, by the time all the characters come around (which if they just passed your section could take 60-70 mins for them to get back to you) it could be lunch, so you could sample from both menus if you wanted to. I personally like the breakfast food a lot more than the lunch and dinner offerings at CP. Dining plan or not, I would go with CP breakfast and pay for it OOP.

 

[GeorgeG]

We've never had lunch there, but we like the breakfast. We don't go for the characters. When we swing by WDW for breakfast after dropping friends off at the airport it's usually Crystal Palace or Kona Cafe at the Poly. In recent years, the breakfast options in the parks has dwindled to almost nothing.

 

[DisneyEater]

I prefer the 8am get in the park early breakfast, but I think if you are sticking with the 11am time frame, I would go with breakfast and stay for lunch.

 

[coltsfanatic]

Their lunch is delicious!!! Even my picky-eaters enjoyed their Floridian with flare food at CP :

 

[Snurk71]

For those recommending a late breakfast and staying over for lunch, though I've read of a few doing this over the years, we've never had that experience. We've had a last seating of breakfast a few times and been close to the last ones there before the lunch wave started. At least one time they had lunch items on one half of the buffet, but all of the dishes were covered and there were no serving utensils put out.

So I would just caution anyone planning on sampling from both to not count on it.

 

[DisneyEater]

For those recommending a late breakfast and staying over for lunch, though I've read of a few doing this over the years, we've never had that experience. We've had a last seating of breakfast a few times and been close to the last ones there before the lunch wave started. At least one time they had lunch items on one half of the buffet, but all of the dishes were covered and there were no serving utensils put out.

So I would just caution anyone planning on sampling from both to not count on it.

Good to know, thanks.